Azure Virtual Machines Scale Sets and Containers

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VM Series Descriptions

  • A Series
    • Highest value vm sizes
    • Basic and standard sizes
    • General Purpose and High Memory
      • DNS, FTP
    • High Performance (A8/A9) (RDMA Networking)
  • D Family
    • 60% Faster CPU
    • Up to 112GB Memory
    • Local SSD storage (non-persistent)
  • G Series
    • Optimized for data workloads
    • Up to 32 CPU cores, 448GB RAM, 6.5TB local SSD (non-persistent)
    • Latest Gen Intel Processor
  • GS / DS

Sizing Recommendations

  • Find out what the client is currently using
  • When in doubt, start small and work your way up.

AWS vs Azure Instance Comparisons

Availability Sets vs Availability Zone

  • Availability Set
    • Different ‘Fault Domain’
      • Maintenance, hardware, etc.
    • VMs automatically deployed into different Fault Domains to improve overall uptime
    • Uptime SLA 99.95 based on min. 2 VMs in an Availability Set. (lame…)
  • Availability Zone
    • Different building / datacenter
    • Require unique subnets

Anatomy of an Iaas v2 Deployment

Lab: Creating an Azure Virtual Machine

  • Dashboard > Virtual Machines > [Create a virtual machine] > Select Image
    • Select Deployment Model: Resource Manager
    • [Create]
  • Basics
    • Name: VM Name, not your name 🙂
    • Username
    • Authentication
      • Password or
      • SSH public key (paste in)
        • ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc…llT59o1ixbrt

Building VMs from the CLI

Basic Commands

Switch Display modes

Azure Resource Manager

azure config mode arm

Azure Service Manager (Classic Mode)

azure config mode asm

Show current subscription

azure account show

Change Account

azure account set SubscriptionName

VM Help

azure vm --help

Show VMs

azure vm list

Create a VM

azure vm create --resource-group test --location centralus --os-type linux --image-urn UbuntuLTS --admin-username ubuntu --admin-password @asdDSA123$ --vm-size Standard_B1S --nic-name MyNic --name thomas-server-02 --public-ip-name mypublicip --public-ip-domain-name thomas-public-ip --vnet-name thomas-01 --vnet-subnet-name default

Helpful Hints

azure vm create --help

Show standard images aliases

azure vm image --help
Commands to manage VM images

Lists virtual machines image publishers
  vm image list-publishers [options] 

Lists virtual machines image offers by a publisher
  vm image list-offers [options]  

Lists virtual machines image skus for a specific offer from a publisher
  vm image list-skus [options]   

Lists the virtual machines images
  vm image list [options]   [offer] [sku]

Lists the virtual machines images
  vm image show [options]     

Options:
  -h, --help  output usage information

Current Mode: arm (Azure Resource Management)

Consider Azure CLI 2.0, the preferred choice for ARM - https://aka.ms/move2cli2

Win2012R2Datacenter = MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2012-R2-Datacenter:latest
Win2012Datacenter = MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2012-Datacenter:latest
Win2008R2SP1 = MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2008-R2-SP1:latest
CentOS = OpenLogic:CentOS:7.2:latest
CoreOS = CoreOS:CoreOS:Stable:latest
Debian = credativ:Debian:8:latest
openSUSE = SUSE:openSUSE:13.2:latest
RHEL = RedHat:RHEL:7.2:latest
SLES = SUSE:SLES:12-SP1:latest
UbuntuLTS = Canonical:UbuntuServer:14.04.4-LTS:latest

Cleaner with json

azure vm image list-skus --location centralus --publisher Canonical --offer UbuntuServer --json

Get VM Sizes

azure vm sizes --location centralus

List Locations

azure location list

 

 

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